Lewis ideally suited to reviving Wales

The foundations are already in place and the new man in charge of the WRU is determined to build upon them

RUGBY in Wales last week was dominated by a man in a suit. He was everywhere. The Western Mail devoted its front and back pages to him, plus two more inside. If you turned on the television or the radio and he was not on, then he was probably dashing from one studio to another.

Roger Lewis, the new group chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), will not actually be out there in the jersey, or picking the team. But it is obvious not only from the job description set out by the WRU, but also from the energy of Lewis himself before he has even started the job officially, that both he and his new employers expect him to fork lightning — and if their response is anything to go by, so do the media in Wales.